Proverbs 21:10 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 21:10–13

Read Proverbs 21:10 with 21:10–13. Read alone, “The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”; by 21:13, it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard”. Together the unit concentrates on justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries, humility, teachability, pride, and reputation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 21:10–13 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries, humility, teachability, pride, and reputation, while each sentence proverb retains its own force and the neighboring database unit does not supply its meaning. Within that relationship, this verse opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”.